MIT Sloan Climate + Sustainability
Searching for expert sources on the business of climate change? MIT Sloan faculty have timely insights for global business leaders.
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Chris Knittel’s research pinpoints which U.S. communities have the most carbonintensive workforces that are most vulnerable to economic disruption and in need of government subsidies to support a just transition to a greener economy.
Catherine Wolfram has analyzed climate policy, U.S. energy efficiency programs, effects of environmental regulation on energy markets, and the impact of privatization and restructuring in the U.S. and U.K.
Jason Jay, who has helped advance sustainability strategy with Fortune 500 companies, can share how businesses need to prepare for—and thrive in—a greener future.
Climate + Sustainability Experts
Christopher Knittel
Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability
Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…
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Jason Jay
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
Jason Jay, PhD, is the Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His teaching, research, and community-building help people navigate the tensions that arise as we simultaneously…
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Namrata Kala
Digital Equipment Corp. Associate Professor of Management
Namrata Kala is the Digital Equipment Corp. Associate Professor of Management and an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development…
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Robert S. Pindyck
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…
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Gita R. Rao
Senior Lecturer, Finance
Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She joined the MIT Sloan finance faculty with over two decades of experience in global investing, asset…
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Climate + Sustainability Research
"Environmental Sustainability in Cardiovascular Practice: Current Challenges and Future Directions."
Rajagopalan, Sanjay, Scott McAlister, Jason Jay et al. Nature Reviews Cardiology. Forthcoming.
"Implications of Policy-Driven Transmission Expansion on Costs, Emissions, and Reliability in the United States."
Senga, Juan Ramon L., Audun Botterud, John E. Parsons, S. Drew Story, and Christopher R. Knittel. Nature Energy. Forthcoming.
"Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-Platforms: Evidence from the Field."
Retsef Levi, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming.
"On Distributionally Robust Multistage Convex Optimization: Data-driven Models and Performance."
Zhang, Shixuan and Andy Sun. INFORMS Journal on Optimization. Forthcoming.
"Solar Radiation Ramping Events Modeling Using Spatio-Temporal Point Processes."
Xu, Chen, Minghe Zhang, Andy Sun, Feng Qiu, and Yao Xie. INFORMS Journal on Data Science. Forthcoming.
"Solvability of Power Flow Equations Through Existence and Uniqueness of Complex Fixed Point."
Cui, Bai and Xu Andy Sun. Automatica. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?"
Clausing, Kimberly A., Christopher R. Knittel, and Catherine Wolfram. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Forthcoming.
"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal Vol. 135, No. 672 (2025): 2377-2401. NBER Working Paper.
"The Power of Persuasion: Causal Effects of Household Communication on Women’s Employment."
Kala, Namrata and Madeline McKelway, Working Paper. October 2025.
"Designing Adaptive Backbones: Organizational Choices to Enable Systems Change."
Topic: Sustainability
Fumi, Alessandro and Jason Jay, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7321-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2025.
Keywords: Systemic Investing, Backbone Organization, Collective Impact, Investing for Systems Change, Impact Investing, Sustainable Finance, Socio-Technical Systems